14 Mahatma Gandhi Quotes on Activism

Mahatma Gandhi quotes on activism

9. I have even seen writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

31. We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.

110. A satyagrahi is born to be deceived.

112. Satyagraha is a sovereign remedy.

117. When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people.

118. The end of satyagraha campaign can be described as worthy only when it leaves the satyagrahis stronger and more spirited then they are in the beginning.

127. A reformer cannot afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform.

132. A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

142. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

169. I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace.

199. Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

226. There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

249. With this salt I am shaking the foundations of the empire.

261. A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back -- but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

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